almost ready!

i was so excited when we moved and found out there were citrus trees in the yard! i've never grown anything other than flowers, so its pretty cool.

when we moved in, this is what the oranges looked like:
we also had lemons and strawberries, but they didn't make it.

here are our oranges, as of last week!

they are like the size of, well, oranges! yay! i checked them again yesterday, and they are almost all yellow, so they will be picked soon!

we're a little bit fruity...

when we moved in, the house came complete with a mandarin orange and a lemon tree! we added to them this weekend with a strawberry plant!
and then i was feeling a little crafty/needed a break from unpacking. this guy was left by the previous owner (thank you!) but was a little rusty since we was just metal. here he is with several coats of paint:
and then here's my giant door mat! its a combo of
two that i tweaked in order to look like one